Defining deviance : sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960 / Michael A. Rembis.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Segregation of mental defectives as a preventive of crime, immorality, and inefficiency -- Defective children in the juvenile court -- The relation between morality and intellect" -- I ain't had much schooling -- How a girl of the road wins rides and influences motorists -- "Little savages" and "psychopathic deviates".